Location
City of Westminster

Hours
Full Time

Salary
£96,000 per annum

About the Role
The Home Office operates in a complex and high-profile environment, delivering work that has a direct impact on the public, the Department and wider government. Strong risk management is essential to ensuring that senior leaders can make well-informed decisions, anticipate challenges early and maintain confidence in the Department’s ability to deliver its priorities. This role is central to strengthening that capability: leading the Department’s approach to strategic risk, improving assurance and controls, and supporting the Accounting Officer, Executive Committee, Director Generals and Ministers with clear insight on the risks that matter most. By embedding high-quality risk management across the organisation, the postholder will help improve delivery, strengthen governance and support better outcomes for the public.

Key Accountabilities
Leading and developing a team to deliver a broad portfolio across risk, assurance and improvement - positioning the team as expert advisors to the business, the Audit, Risk and Assurance Committee and senior leaders across the department.
Communicating the importance and value of risk management and being visible as its senior sponsor.
Facilitating and driving management discussions, decisions and strategies on risk and assurance with Directors General, the Executive Committee, and Audit Committee.
Leading the Home Office’s risk framework and strategy, ensuring robust identification, management and reporting of organisational risks through proactive engagement with the business.
Overseeing cross-departmental programmes to enhance risk controls and to ensure best-practice delivery.
Being a core member of the Performance, Risk, Assurance & Governance directorate’s senior leadership team, contributing to our collective leadership of the team and cross departmental governance.
Engaging with other Government Departments, internal and external auditors, and industry to develop insight and best practice on risk management.

Benefits
Alongside your salary of £86,000, the Home Office contributes £24,914 towards membership of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
Learning and development tailored to your role.
An environment with flexible working options.
A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%.

Additional Information
This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years to enable delivery of key business outcomes and support career development.
Successful candidates must meet security requirements, including a security check.
The role is open to UK nationals and certain other eligible groups as defined by nationality requirements.
The Civil Service promotes diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities and operates fair and open recruitment principles.

Experience
Proven practitioner experience of leading strategic risk management and assurance processes and reporting in a complex organisation.
Experience influencing multiple senior stakeholders including Directors General, Executive Committees, and Audit Committees.
Proven ability to lead high performing teams and deliver complex portfolios of work.
Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills with credibility at senior official and board level.

About You
Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex and technical issues clearly.
Visible senior sponsor for risk management, able to communicate its importance and value effectively.
Committed to embedding high-quality risk management to improve delivery, governance and outcomes.

Qualifications
Professionally qualified in risk management, audit, assurance, governance or a related discipline, or able to demonstrate equivalent senior professional expertise.